The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05

1t should be an essential part of the
agricultural bureaus work to use these
stations for the general advancement of
agricultural knowledge and to present
to the whole country whatever valuable
information may be gathered from their
xperiments. Courier.
IT is said that the post-ofiice question
at Montpelier is to be settled by the APP
pointment of Hiram Atkins as post
master. Mr.. Atkins all along asserted
that he would accept of no office for
himself, but may have changed his mind
in order to quiet the controversy. A
party of hunters wandered into a de-
serted fishing camp and looking around
one of the number discovered a valuable
fish-knife. He had often asserted that he
was an honest man and would purloin
nothing, though he had an opportunity.
AS his eye rested upon the knife, how
ever, he could not resist the tempta-
ton of securing the coveted prize for
himself, and remarked that he guessed
he would take it in order to save it, as
somebody else might come along and
JUDGE POLAND" queried the
Lounger, "of all the men whom you
have met in your public career whom
do you regard as the greatest man?"
"Well," replied the judge, " these
great men that we hear 50 much
about are most of them very little men
when you get close to them. The
newspapers are full of the names of
men who are really very small fellows
They have been brought to the front by
stress of circumstances" The Judge
closed his eyes reflectively for mo-
ment, and continues: "The greatest
man | have ever met, among men now
living, taking him by and large and
considering everything, is James G..
Blaine. He is great mana very
great man." care you for Blaine as a
presidential candidate in 1888 ?"
am for the nominee of the republican
national convention" replied Judge
Poland.-St. J0hnsbury Republican.
IN speaking of the canvass of the re-
cent legislative preferences for presi-
dent, the Newport ErpreSS says: " We
do not suppose Mr.. Blaine knew any
thing about it, but if his friends think
they can advance the interests of the
plumed knight by such palpably fraudu-
lent methods as this they have mis-
taken the temper of the people, that's
all. If any more such schemes are de-
velOped Mr.. Blaine may fervently pray
4 H. Ill; f,;o H.,
canvass was not made in the interest of
any one, and we discover nothing opal
pablv fraudulent about it. The views
of three or four members may have
been unintentionally misrepresented,
but we have personal knowledge of the
fact that large majority of the mem
bers expressed exactly the opinions
that were attributed to them. We saw
many of them ill the prepared blanks,
and many more of them gave us their
views personally Burlington Clipper.
COMMENTING on the defeat of the
movement for open executive sessions,
the st. Paul Pioneer Press Tepublican)
says: "There is one thing to be done,
and that is to keep up the agitation.
There are few subjects upon which
public opinion is so nearly unanimous
as this. There is scarcely newspaper
which has not warmly advocated the
reform. Even the senators who vote
against it are chary of defending their
action or of being drawn into any dis
cussion of it. They know, as every
body familiar with the practical course
of politics knows, that the secret ses-
sion is the last resort of the spoils sys-
TEN, covering evils which no regula-
tons dealing with the civil service can
reach. The time will come when the
public demand must be needed With
the repeal of the tenure-of- act,
the responsibility resting upon the
senate in the matter of combinations
will be even greater than now Once
let the matter be brought to free dis
cussion and direct vote, and the vic
tory will be half won. The friends of
the open session should not rest until
that point is gained"